The Next Project - BTTF's Time Train

myles · Post by **myles** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 8:22 pm

Early pics from my next project, lots of questions to follow but while I'm getting the list together, Im a fan of games. A pat on the back if you get what it is (or suppsed to be

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carlwestwood · Post by **carlwestwood** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 8:26 pm

looks interesting! gud work

carl

myles · Post by **myles** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 8:30 pm

Thanks

Its 5936 polys so far (good or bad?) but theres lots more small detials on it to do yet

kirkheath · Post by **kirkheath** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 8:31 pm

It looks abit like the loco from back to the futre 3

RobertM · Post by **RobertM** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 8:33 pm

Will it fly then?

myles · Post by **myles** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 8:37 pm

kirkheath wrote:It looks abit like the loco from back to the futre 3

Got it!

It wont fly unfortunatly but its (hopefully) going to be fully animated and have lots of lights!

Comments on what it needs, other than the obvious stuff that hasnt been done yet.

monarchgold · Post by **monarchgold** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 8:40 pm

IT LOOKS LIKE IT BECAUSE IT IS THE TRAIN FROM BACK TO THE FUTURE. LOOK AT THE ELB. EMMET L. BROWN!!!

RobertM · Post by **RobertM** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 8:40 pm

How about the mad genious on the footblate

myles · Post by **myles** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 8:45 pm

RobertM wrote:How about the mad genious on the footblate

That would be me

kirkheath · Post by **kirkheath** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 8:52 pm

monarchgold wrote:IT LOOKS LIKE IT BECAUSE IT IS THE TRAIN FROM BACK TO THE FUTURE. LOOK AT THE ELB. EMMET L. BROWN!!!

ALL right calm it

I had figured it out after i posted, but it would take up more space and wasting time and side-tracking from the main point.
Anywho, nice model look forward to the finnished product

myles · Post by **myles** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 9:07 pm

If no one had guessed I'm an insane fan of the BTTF trilogy, so I'm making the train but I'm in need of a little help. I need to post some of the questions now or im never going to get anywhere.

-Whats the best way to get two exausts. As yoyu may know the time train has two flame shooting chimenys and I can only get 1 short of having a second hiden engine, is there another way? (number 1)

-Tips on lights, should this get to that stage there are going to be lights for all the parts of the engine, including tender. How do I get them to flash, fade, come on at a cirtain speed ect.

-The white and red lining on the wheels goes funny at distances, I know something about makeing the .ace a bigger resolution and having the surronding colour similar to the needed one. But how does that work for lining.

-Tips on realists textures, this may be a general issue, all my trains seem to look very perfect and almost toytown.

-Wipers! Now this is causing problems, Numbers 2 and three on the pic are going to be animated using the 'v' key (if possible) but I cant seem to get it working. Shape viewer is fine tick the wipers box and they animate. In the sim 3 animates when the engines moving and 2 doesnt move at all.

And can there be some comments on looks and some encouregement to finish it,this is a big project, Yea lots of encouregement please.
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On a side note, does anyone know WHY! my precursor model has still not been accepted!

Sorry for the long post but it was needed.

trainmad · Post by **trainmad** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 10:46 pm

Will it have time travel capabilities then? Any chance of doing a model of the Delorean to go with it as well?

myles · Post by **myles** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 8:37 am

I shall probebly try once this is finished, although that could take a while.

EDIT: Its come up with a problem when trying to put it into a consist to test what I have. It says

Error reading train database file
File: Trains\Trainset\The Time Train\TimeTrain.eng
Line: 4

I've had problems like this before but
SIMISA@@@@@@@@@@JINX0D0t______

Wagon ( The Time Train
Type ( Engine )
WagonShape ( TimeTrain.s )
Size ( 2.66m 4.189m 8.5m )
CentreOfGravity ( 0m 1.7m 0m )
Centre ( 0m 0m 0m )
Mass ( 96.25t )
InertiaTensor ( Box (3.1m 3.79m 13m) )
Coupling (
Type ( Chain )
Spring (
Stiffness ( 1e6N/m 2e6N/m )
Damping ( 1e6N/m 1e6N/m )
Break ( 3.2e6N 3.2e6N )
r0 ( 20cm 40cm )
)
)

What on earth is wrong with that!

trainmad · Post by **trainmad** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 9:21 am

You can't have spaces in the actual wagon name.

I suggest trying something like The_Time_Train.

However, the actual name (found at the bottom of the ENG file normally) could be 'The Time Train.'

myles · Post by **myles** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 10:32 am

Thats now fixed and its got a consist now but when I try and load it in the sim it gives me the same error with line 425.

here's the twist, there isnt a line 425.

Any help?